We have to admit, this one even caught us by surprise.

Thanks to the generous support of the Provost and the Office for Undergraduate Global Engagement at Columbia University in New York (USA), the JRP now has a new internship partner with the specific aim of improving reproducibility in psychological research.

Beginning January 2020, the Department of Psychology at Columbia will offer Global Behavioral Science – or GLOBES – as a course for undergraduate students to learn about and design behavioral studies that focus on how theories do (or do not) apply in different locations and languages. As the course progresses, participants will directly assist with designing a major replication study that they will carry out in partnership with the JRP Interns later that summer in Cambridge. There will also be an open conference in France at the Columbia Paris Reid Hall Campus, to be held in July 2020. All of these activities are being directly supported by the generosity of the Provost and UGE at Columbia.

In the near future, current cohort members as well as alumni will be notified about what new opportunities will be opened to them through GLOBES, in New York, Paris, and possibly elsewhere. For now, 2020 will be the trial year of the partnership. However, there has already been considerable demand to participate, so we are hopeful that this is the beginning of a long relationship that engages early career researchers on both sides of the Atlantic.